Comparing Hill in ACC play to Previous Years

In the past few years there's been some consternation regarding the apparent disappearance of Ahmed Hill in conference play, especially as the year goes on. Has this been the case in the past? Is this the case now? Easy answers: kind of, and hell no, respectively.

In 2016, Hill averaged 10.3 ppg during the first half of the conference slate, but only dropped off by 1 ppg during the second half, in an offense where he was the about the third scoring option, behind LeDay and Allen, splitting time with Robinson, Clarke, and Bibbs.

Last year was a different story. Hill improved to 11.8 ppg for the first half of the conference season, but he fell off dramatically to 2.3 ppg. Interestingly, with the exception of Robinson, every top scorer on the team had noticeable dropoffs in the second half of the season.

How has he positioned himself this season? Hill currently sits at 14 ppg (his best performance over a half conference slate). Of the remaining 9 teams on the conference slate, Hill has average 10 points or more against four of them, and close to 10 against two more. Of the three others, he's averaging 16 ppg this season, all on the road.

The cards are being dealt for him to have a tremendous scoring output in the second half of the conference slate, and break out of the shadow of the poor performance from last year.

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